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Old 01-27-2025, 01:16 AM   #10255
Amalthia
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Originally Posted by JimmXinu View Post
It does not. FFF doesn't use any part of Calibre Conversion when generating epubs--it's all FFF specific code.

I know Calibre Conversion has an option for splitting epub output, but I've never seen it needed. 260kb seems very small by today's standards. I don't know if I could introduce such a feature. FFF's paradigm is pretty firmly one chapter == one file.

Is this a common enough problem for people I should try?
I picked 260kb for my own settings. The story I ran across the part was over 300kb and that seemed break the epub. I was able to use the "Convert to Epub" option in Calibre to fix the two fics that had this problem.

I'm not sure if this is a problem for many stories?

Most author's tend to post short chapters, or break up fics longer than 20k into chapters. The story this happened with didn't have any chapter breaks and it was over 50k words long.

I download a lot of fic and I've rarely ran across this problem. I think what is annoying about this problem is you don't know there is a problem until you try and view the story on the device and discover half the fic is missing. I don't review the contents of the epub for every story I download.

Having said all that I'm not sure it's worth the effort to add a new feature to FFF to split "larger than" files into multiple file. If this was affecting 1 out of 100 stories it may be worthwhile, but I suspect it's more like 1 in 20k stories have this issue.

Thanks for the fast response!
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